This page summarises the donations reported to the Electoral Commission by central party units during the pre-poll period leading up to the 2024 GE. These are also compared to donations made in 2019 by the same period. Currently, only week 1, 2 and 3 have been released for the 2024 GE. This page will be updated as more data is released.

Totals: 2024 pre-poll week one - three

All donations made to the Co-operative party were combined with the Labour party, and public funds were removed. Scroll to see full tables.

Individual
Company
Trade Union
Unincorporated Association
Friendly Society
Total
Party W1 W2 W3 W1 W2 W3 W1 W2 W3 W1 W2 W3 W1 W2 W3
Conservative Party £471,418 £192,500 £105,000 £75,000 £50,000 £100,000 £28,500 £50,000 £170,000 £1,242,418
Labour Party £484,000 £4,323,400 £1,429,400 £500,000 £20,000 £32,908 £100,000 £1,880,518 £30,000 £34,000 £8,834,226
Liberal Democrats £105,000 £155,000 £173,945 £349,999 £180,000 £20,000 £983,944
Reform UK £90,000 £242,000 £54,000 £50,000 £500,000 £45,000 £981,000
SNP £127,998 £127,998
Green Party £20,000 £20,000 £40,000
Climate Party £25,000 £25,000
Workers Party of Britain £12,000 £12,000
Social Democratic Party £25,000 £25,000
Total £1,303,416 £4,932,900 £1,794,345 £999,999 £750,000 £165,000 £32,908 £100,000 £1,880,518 £28,500 £50,000 £170,000 £30,000 £34,000 £12,271,586

2024 totals: combined

Donor Status
Individual Company Unincorporated
Association
Friendly Society Trade Union Total
Conservative Party £768,918 £225,000 £248,500 £1,242,418
Labour Party £6,236,800 £520,000 £64,000 £2,013,426 £8,834,226
Liberal Democrats £433,945 £549,999 £983,944
Reform UK £386,000 £595,000 £981,000
SNP £127,998 £127,998
Green Party £40,000 £40,000
Climate Party £25,000 £25,000
Workers Party of Britain £12,000 £12,000
Social Democratic Party £25,000 £25,000
Total £8,030,661 £1,914,999 £248,500 £64,000 £2,013,426 £12,271,586

Comparisons: 2019 and 2024 GE

The table below summarises the total amounts received by each party, split by pre-poll donation week. The 2019 comparisons are limited to week one to three to be directly comparable.

Week one to three

The table below summarises totals for week one to three, split by 2019 and 2024. Interestingly, Labour received a higher total donation amount in week 2 of the 2019 campaign, however when looking at donor type, it can be seem this was massively boosted by Trade Union donations - individual and company donations remained low for Labour during week 2 of the 2019 campaign.

Week One
Week Two
Week 3
2019 2024 2019 2024 2019 2024
Conservative Party £5,673,646 £574,918 £2,967,000 £292,500 £3,590,500 £375,000
Labour Party £218,500 £1,046,908 £3,488,000 £4,443,400 £521,909 £3,343,918
Liberal Democrats £275,000 £454,999 £251,000 £335,000 £509,998 £193,945
Reform UK £250,000 £140,000 £2,250,000 £742,000 £99,000
SNP £127,998 £10,000
Green Party £30,000 £37,750 £20,000 £100,000 £20,000
Plaid Cymru £70,000
Climate Party £25,000
Social Democratic Party £25,000
Workers Party of Britain £12,000
Alliance £60,000 £15,000
Total £6,507,146 £2,394,823 £9,073,750 £5,832,900 £4,737,407 £4,043,863

The graph below shows the same trends for the main parties that received donations: Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, Reform, Greens, Plaid and SNP.

Split by donor type

The table below summarises the total amounts recieved in week 1, 2 and 3 of the campaigns, split by donor type (scroll left to see all columns).

Individual
Company
Trade Union
Unincorporated Association
Friendly Society
Limited Liability Partnership
2019 2024 2019 2024 2019 2024 2019 2024 2019 2024 2019 2024
Conservative Party £8,630,146 £768,918 £3,503,000 £225,000 £78,000 £248,500 £20,000
Labour Party £101,442 £6,236,800 £90,000 £520,000 £4,026,466 £2,013,426 £10,500 £64,000
Liberal Democrats £844,998 £433,945 £191,000 £549,999
Reform UK £2,500,000 £386,000 £595,000
SNP £127,998 £10,000
Green Party £157,750 £40,000 £10,000
Plaid Cymru £70,000
Climate Party £25,000
Social Democratic Party £25,000
Workers Party of Britain £12,000
Alliance £25,000 £50,000
Total £12,329,336 £8,030,661 £3,854,000 £1,914,999 £4,026,466 £2,013,426 £88,500 £248,500 £0 £64,000 £20,000 £0

Biggest party comparisons

Below sums up the totals for week one to three received in 2019 and 2024 by the key parties. This is to get a better sense of total amounts compared to 2019 - it is interesting that there was still more money going into the Conservatives relative to how much Labour are getting now.

This may be related to the increase in reporting threshold; in 2019 any donation over £7,500 needed to be reported, the Elections Act of 2022 raised this threshold to £11,180. Rather than less money being accepted, it may be less is required to be reported. This is speculation.